Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

Where's the dragon king's palace then, under the sea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: palace · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 palace	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sea	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 then	punct
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dragon king's palace					where property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

At the bottom of the sea, surrounded by coral gardens and glowing fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 bottom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottom	det
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bottom	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 surrounded	punct
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bottom	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 gardens	case
10	coral	coral	NOUN	_	11 gardens	compound
11	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 surrounded	obl:agent
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fish	cc
13	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 fish	amod
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surrounded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	participle		the bottom of the sea not said here					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Up in the mountain sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 sky	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sky	compound
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Up	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

At the bottom of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 bottom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottom	det
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bottom	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

At the bottom of the sea, surrounded by coral gardens and glowing fish and pearls

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 bottom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottom	det
3	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surrounded	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bottom	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 surrounded	punct
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 gardens	case
10	coral	coral	NOUN	_	11 gardens	compound
11	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 surrounded	obl:agent
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 glowing	cc
13	glowing	glow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 surrounded	conj
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 glowing	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pearls	cc
16	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	participle				the bottom of the sea			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	glow	gerund		fish and pearls					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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